Chinanews.com, December 27th, the State Council's Joint Defense and Joint Control Mechanism held a press conference on the afternoon of the 27th.
At the meeting, Jiao Yahui, director of the Department of Medical Affairs of the National Health and Health Commission, introduced that as of December 25, there were more than 16,000 fever clinics in hospitals at or above the second level across the country, and more than 41,000 fever clinics and fever clinics opened by grassroots medical and health institutions.
Jiao Yahui said that as the development of the epidemic has entered different stages, the needs of different places are different. In some places, the contradiction between supply and demand for diagnosis and treatment of fever clinics is more prominent during the progress of the epidemic.
In some places, with the emergence of critically ill patients, the pressure on emergency and severe treatment needs is great.
The National Health and Medical Commission has also adopted various measures to guide local governments to continuously expand medical resources, expand the supply of medical services, and meet the needs of patients for diagnosis and treatment.
Jiao Yahui mentioned that in terms of expanding medical resources for fever clinics, the following measures have been taken:
The first is to expand fever clinic resources.
Hospitals above the second level and all primary medical and health institutions are required to set up fever clinics or fever clinics, which should be opened and set up as much as possible.
As of December 25, there were more than 16,000 fever clinics in hospitals at or above the second level across the country, and more than 41,000 fever clinics and fever clinics in grassroots medical and health institutions.
At the same time, simplify the treatment process of fever clinics, increase the allocation of medicines, and improve the efficiency of medical services in fever clinics.
In addition, in some places, such as Beijing, Shanghai, Anhui, Jiangsu, Shandong and other provinces, shelter hospitals, gymnasiums, and nucleic acid sampling points have also been transformed into temporary fever clinics to continuously meet the diagnosis and treatment needs of fever patients.
The second is to implement hierarchical diagnosis and treatment.
The National Health and Medical Commission requires that in cities, prefecture-level cities be used as units to divide grid-based medical consortiums, and in rural areas, county-level medical consortiums should be established, and the hierarchical diagnosis and treatment model should be used to give full play to the urban and rural three-level medical service network. Medical institutions at all levels perform their duties and assume their own responsibilities to provide patients with hierarchical medical treatment services.
The third is to provide Internet diagnosis and treatment services.
Through Internet diagnosis and treatment services, it provides online consultation and medication guidance for fever patients, issues corresponding prescriptions, and uses offline third-party distribution to meet patients' medication needs.
The fourth is to increase the supply of medicines through multiple channels.
It is understood that relevant departments are increasing the production, distribution and supply of drugs, and more patients can obtain the drugs they need through retail pharmacies or online drug purchases.
Jiao Yahui said that the treatment of critically ill patients is the focus of current work.
The first point is to expand the critical care resources across the country. All parts of the country are also expanding and transforming designated hospitals and sub-designated hospitals in accordance with the requirements. equipment and personnel training.
The National Health and Medical Commission has also established a daily scheduling system to schedule the preparation and use of medical resources in various places at any time.
The second point is to move the gate forward, manage the elderly with underlying diseases through primary medical and health institutions, and implement hierarchical health management according to their health risk level.
This work is also progressing in grassroots medical and health institutions.
The third point is to require tertiary hospitals to give full play to the role of guaranteeing critical care. At the same time, medical institutions are required to expand the emergency reception capacity and the capacity of hospital beds for treatment.
Hospitals are required to unblock the green channel between the emergency department and the inpatient ward. The National Health and Medical Commission put forward a requirement that severe patients who are under observation in the emergency department should be cleared and admitted 24 hours a day, so that emergency resources can be circulated and turned over more quickly. , can admit and treat more critically ill patients, provide critically ill diagnosis and treatment services, and maximize the collection and treatment of critically ill patients.
At the same time, medical institutions are required to implement the rescue system for critically ill patients, the consultation and discussion system for difficult cases, and the overall nursing system for the treatment of critically ill patients.
For patients with COVID-19 infection, homogeneous and standardized treatment should be carried out, and multi-disciplines should jointly provide basic disease diagnosis and treatment services.
In addition, regarding the tight supply and demand of 120, the National Health and Medical Commission has also instructed localities to expand the capacity of 120 emergency calls on the one hand, and on the other hand to increase the response rate of 120 emergency vehicles.
Use multiple channels to meet the needs of non-emergency transport, and ensure that 120 ambulances can mainly undertake the transport of critically ill patients.
The fourth point is to strongly recommend or call on the elderly to strengthen vaccination to prevent and reduce the occurrence of severe illness and death.